Movie & TV Show Recommendations

Jonah Hill poster said:
After you’re done watching Kaiji, please take the time out of your day to watch Akagi. It is arguably one of the best examples of a prequel done right, and is honestly one of the best examples of drama and gambling done in a detailed and well-written manner.

If I were being bold, I’d put this in the top 25 anime I’ve seen in my life.
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It also has a hyper-dramatic theme song by Maximum the Hormone, the metalcore band that later did a couple of well-regarded tunes for Death Note. The lyrics are about mahjong.
 
Think I already mention in this thread, but A Night to Remember is the best movie about Titanic.
For a britbong movie from the late 50s, it is still very effective and the acting is great.
The guy who played Thomas Andrew is really good.
 
Carlos Thin said:
The Name of the Rose is a comfy murder mystery, with some beautiful set design. And Sean Connery of course
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The book is really good. Actually better, but I'd definitely recommend the movie too.

It's a little tricky because there are often lengthy passages in Latin in it, but at the time, I was actually studying it and had a teacher and could literally bring it to class and the teacher would have the class translate it as a group thing. This was after we did Caesar and before Virgil so it was intermediate.
 
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Romanian movie about Michael the Brave. Made during the communist era, full of historical revisionism in favour of Romanian nationalism and some communist propaganda, but still a damn good movie series.
 
AnOminous said:
Hackman gives a top-notch performance in every single movie he's in. It doesn't matter what.
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I agree. Unforgiven wouldn't be one of the greatest movies of all-time without his performance as Sheriff Little Bill. A lesser actor would have fucked it up.

As for recommendations, I've been on an 80s Sword & Sorcery kick recently thanks to Tubi. You really can't go wrong with the very best of the bunch (Conan the Barbarian) Other incredibly fun movies are Deathstalker 1&2, Conan the Destroyer, Beastmaster, Barbarian Queen, and Sorceress. All except for Beastmaster are on Tubi.
 
ChampFantana said:
As for recommendations, I've been on an 80s Sword & Sorcery kick recently thanks to Tubi. You really can't go wrong with the very best of the bunch (Conan the Barbarian) Other incredibly fun movies are Deathstalker 1&2, Conan the Destroyer, Beastmaster, Barbarian Queen, and Sorceress. All except for Beastmaster are on Tubi.
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The Deathstalker/Barbarian Queen pictures are primo '80s Corman.

Joe Bob Briggs wrote a real interesting obit for Lana Clarkson, the Barbarian Queen star, who later became more mainstream famous when Phil Spector shot her:

 
David Macaulay documentaries - these documentaries are adaptations of David's books of the same name, written in the late 80's.
They are hosted and narrated by David himself (sometimes with a co-host), where he describes how and why these various works of art were built.
Mind you these were made primarily for children so they don't get that technical, but it's still very interesting.
Tying these live action explanations is an animated narrative where historical and made up characters demonstrate the difficulties and intricacies of the projects.
The animation is pretty decent though there are a few moments where it looks like it was animated by the people who made the Zelda CDI animations.
You can find them on YuTube but in low quality.




 
I'm curious if there's anything (recent) like Reacher or the Roundup movies where it boils down to casting a dude who looks huge on film and having him bulldoze through waves of goons.
 
I will check that one out
Jonah Hill poster said:
After you’re done watching Kaiji, please take the time out of your day to watch Akagi. It is arguably one of the best examples of a prequel done right, and is honestly one of the best examples of drama and gambling done in a detailed and well-written manner.

If I were being bold, I’d put this in the top 25 anime I’ve seen in my life.
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I pretty much binge the entire works of that mangaka now, his stuff is amazing.
Even without knowing that much about majong I really enjoyed the anime a lot, though I have read that one has to read the manga to get the full story and that the mangaka took like 20 years to finish the blood betting majong arc.
If someone knows the game well, that anime/manga is 100% a must watch.

I'm currently watching the Tonegawa spin off anime and it's also great content.
When I'm done with that I will most likely read the rest of the Kaji Manga and the spinoff manga for the casino manager in the pachinko arc.
 
Bad Monkey’s final two episodes were an unsatisfying finale, still suprised a certain character bought it. The novel had a better ending, it was funnier and brutal.

They better deviate with the sequel book like they did with this one, I liked the additional story and dynamic with Rosa. That book gets rid of her quick.
 
Want to see a show about genetically engineered, blue people with no genitalia, or a woman forced to watch her little brother get crushed to death by a mech? Or a crazy Captain commits mutiny and goes into an ill-conceived battle only to commit suicide to get out of the mess he made. Or a man beaten to death in his mech. Then the 1993 animated series Exosquad is for you.
 
I started watching The Andy Griffith Show and it's like crack.

Firstly, easy to watch passively. It's the opposite of a lot of modern stuff in that it's so simple that you can be doing other things and not worry about missing some little detail or joke or whatever. Can watch something like Smiling Friends or Xavier Renegade Angel over and over again for its detail, but this is apparently why Boomers watch so much TV/watch it in the background.

Secondly, it's wholesome. You've got a whole genre of TV that was basically, "What if the family/friends love each other/are so polite to each other that their attempts to be nice result in them having some silly misunderstandings?" I think there's even a term for it, comedy of manners or something. Contrast that with modern TV where 90% of it "ha ha the family hates each other" or "ha ha life is meaningless" or some other such trash.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I started watching The Andy Griffith Show and it's like crack.

Firstly, easy to watch passively. It's the opposite of a lot of modern stuff in that it's so simple that you can be doing other things and not worry about missing some little detail or joke or whatever. Can watch something like Smiling Friends or Xavier Renegade Angel over and over again for its detail, but this is apparently why Boomers watch so much TV/watch it in the background.

Secondly, it's wholesome. You've got a whole genre of TV that was basically, "What if the family/friends love each other/are so polite to each other that their attempts to be nice result in them having some silly misunderstandings?" I think there's even a term for it, comedy of manners or something. Contrast that with modern TV where 90% of it "ha ha the family hates each other" or "ha ha life is meaningless" or some other such trash.
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Not even joking, give Leave it to Beaver a chance.
 
Ghost Killer - a film I haven't seen yet but adavance word is good, it was recently acquired by WellGoUSA, anticipating this one since it's the third feature directed by veteran action choreographer Kensuke Sonomura, script by Yugo Sakamoto, who has directed films where Sonomura was the action choreographer, starring Akari Takaishi (one of the co-stars of Sakamoto's 'Baby Assassins' films) and Masanori Mimoto (another experienced action player, who starred in Sonomura's directorial debut Hydra and his second feature Bad City.
The premise is that a nebbishy college student (Takaishi) finds a shell casing, that belonged to the bullet that killed a professional hitman (Mimoto), and now his ghost is bound to her. So off they go, with the hitman possessing the hapless student so he can wreak vengeance on the people who killed him and had him killed.

 
thisithis said:
Want to see a show about genetically engineered, blue people with no genitalia, or a woman forced to watch her little brother get crushed to death by a mech? Or a crazy Captain commits mutiny and goes into an ill-conceived battle only to commit suicide to get out of the mess he made. Or a man beaten to death in his mech. Then the 1993 animated series Exosquad is for you.
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I think you'd enjoy victory Gundam. It goes to some insane places.


Let's send in some half naked women with bazookas against a kid in a mech. What could possibly go wrong?


Easily the best show in the series hands down.
 
Just downloaded "The Substance". To quote my avatar, twoo goood you guys. The ending was missing something
 
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